[Dovecot] Dovecot unable to locate mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:38 +0200, Jason X, Maney wrote:
> Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla:
> Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail
> storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA

As it says.

> Yet my config also come out strangely as below:
> 
> =========
> root at guyana:~# dovecot -n
> # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 3.0.0-12-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> protocols = " imap pop3"
> ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
> root at guyana:~#
> =========

There is no mail_location above. This is the configuration Dovecot sees.

> My mailbox location setting is as follows:
> 
> =========
>  cat conf.d/10-mail.conf |grep mail_location

Look at /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file. Do you see !include
conf.d/*.conf in there? Probably not, so those files aren't being read.